Daily Current Affairs - Week 23, 2022 (06 Jun 2022 - 12 Jun 2022)
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- SAI DG Sandip Pradhan gets another tenure extension of more than 2 years
- Zulfikar Hassan appointed as the new Director General of the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security
- Former executive director of Canara Bank A. Manimekhalai appointed as Managing Director of Union Bank of India
- Hindalco Industries MD Satish Pai, appointed the new chairman of the International Aluminium Institute (IAI)
- Alok Kumar Choudhary replaces Ashwini Bhatia as the new Managing Director of SBI
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- World's largest living plant identified in Western Australia
- Kiya.ai launches India's first-ever Banking Metaverse â Kiyaverse
- Jio becomes 1st telco to give 4G mobile services in Ladakh's Pangong Lake
- All India Council for Technical Education becomes the first accreditation body in the world to have office space in the metaverse
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- India's Anjum Moudgil won silver medal at Shooting World Cup 2022
- Basketball legend LeBron James becomes the first active NBA player to become a billionaire
- Iga Swiatek wins French Open 2022, beats Coco Gauff in final
- Rafael Nadal becomes oldest player to win French Open
- Joe Root created history, became the first England batsman to score 17,000 runs in international cricket
- Swapnil Kusale-Ashi Chouksey win 50m rifle 3P mixed gold, India end ISSF World Cup on 2nd spot
- Avani Lekhara of India won the gold medal in the 10m Air Rifle Standing SH1 category of the Para Shooting World Cup 2022
- India's great cricketer Mithali Raj announces retirement from all forms of international cricket
- Shreyas G Hosur becomes the first Indian Railway officer to complete the world's toughest single-day sport 'The Ironman' triathlon
- Virat Kohli becomes first Indian to cross 200 million followers mark on Instagram
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- India-Bangladesh joint military exercise "X Samprati-X" begins at Jashor Military Station in Bangladesh
- India successfully test-fired nuclear capable Agni-IV missile from APJ Abdul Kalam Island in Odisha
- Multinational peace exercise "Ex Khan Quest 2022" started in Mongolia
- India to participate in world's largest maritime exercise 'Rim of the Pacific'
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- World Food Safety Day 2022 celebrated on 7th June
- World Oceans Day 2022 celebrated on 8th June
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- Meghalaya Wins Best Project Award at UN World Summit
- Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie to be honored with 'Companion of Honor'
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- Social media platform Instagram has launched a feature called 'Amber Alert' to help locate missing children
- IIFA Awards 2022 held in Abu Dhabi
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- âGHAR KE UPAR SOLAR IS SUPERâ campaign launched by Union Minister Shri Bhagwant Khuba
- Chilka Lake, Asia's largest saltwater lagoon, has recorded a population of 176 fishing cats
- Amit Shah inaugurates National Tribal Research Institute in Delhi as part of 'Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav'
- Sant Kabir Academy and Research Center inaugurated in Maghar, UP
- India got 180th rank in Environment Performance Index 2022
- Tamil Nadu got the top position among the big states in the fourth state food security index
- Sir M Visvesvaraya Railway Terminal, India's first centralized AC railway terminal in Bengaluru has been made operational for the general public
- NHAI created new Guinness World Record on NH53, 75 km long highway built in 105 hours
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- Tata Projects wins bid to build Noida International Airport
- SBI Foundation partners with Khan Academy for âUpSchoolâ - A digital learning program for students
- Mahendra Singh Dhoni became the brand ambassador and minority shareholder of drone start-up company "Garuda Aerospace"
- World Bank cuts India's economic growth forecast to 7.5 per cent for FY23
- Reserve Bank of India hikes key repo rate by 50 basis points (bps) to 4.90 per cent
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- Kalash Gupta, a third year computer science student at IIT Delhi, won the title of 'World's Top Coder'
- Bajram Begaj to be the next President of Albania
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) got first place in QS World University Rankings
DD Director-General Mayank Kumar Agrawal given additionl charge of Prasar Bharati CEO
- Doordarshan and Doordarshan News Director-General Mayank Kumar Agrawal has been given the additional charge of Prasar Bharati Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
- He was previously associated with Doordarshan and Doordarshan News at the public broadcaster.
- The move came after the five-year tenure of Shashi Shekhar Vempati as Prasar Bharati CEO came to an end.
- Mr. Vempati was appointed as CEO of the public broadcaster in June 2017, on the recommendation of a three-member committee headed by the then Vice-President.
International Monetary Fund Appoints Krishna Srinivasan as APAC Department Head
- India's Krishna Srinivasan has been appointed as the director of the Asia and Pacific Department of the International Monetary Fund.
- Srinivasan's new appointment will begin from 22 June. His predecessor, Changyong Rhee, announced his retirement on 23 March.
- He is currently a Deputy Director in the Asia-Pacific department.
- He has more than 27 years of work experience at IMF.
- Srinivasan led the IMF's work on G20 during the Global Financial Crisis as an integral member of the research department.
Music maestro AR Rahman appointed ambassador of "The Season of Culture"
- Music Maestro AR Rahman has been appointed as ambassador of The Season of Culture, which marks the 75th anniversary of India's independence.
- It was officially launched by Britain's Deputy High Commissioner to India Jan Thomson and Director (India) of the British Council Barbara Wickham.
- The Season of Culture aims to strengthen India-UK collaboration in the areas of arts, English and education.
For the first time an Indian recognized as Global SDG Pioneer by UNGC
- For the first time in the world, an Indian has been recognized by the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) as a Global Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Pioneer for Water Stewardship from India.
- Ramkrishna Mukkavilli, the Founder and Managing Director of Maithri Aquatech, a Make-In-India company.
- Using the technology of atmospheric water generation, his company Maithri Aquatech has generated over 100 million litres of fresh water from the air.
- He was previously selected as Indiaâs SDG Pioneer by the UN Global Compact Network India and has now been recognised as one of the 10 new SDG Pioneers for 2022.
Union Ministers Dharmendra Pradhan, Anurag Thakur Released Books Titled âLoktantra ke Swarâ & âThe Republican Ethicâ
- Union Education and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Minister Shri Dharmendra Pradhan along with Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting and Sports Shri Anurag Thakur released a book âLoktantra ke Swarâ and âThe Republican Ethicâ having selected speeches of the President of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind.
- This the fourth volume of the series featuring the fourth year of presidency of Shri Ram Nath Kovind.
- The Minister highlighted that this book captures Presidentâs thoughts on varied topics such as public service, ethics, education, aspirations of our youth, contemporary global issues.
Anocovax: India launches its first COVID-19 vaccine for animals
- Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar launched Anocovax, India's first homegrown COVID-19 vaccine for animals, produced by the ICAR-National Research Centre on Equines (NRCE) in Haryana.
- The vaccine uses Alhydrogel as an adjuvant and contains inactivated SARS-CoV-2 (Delta) antigen. It is also safe for dogs, lions, leopards, mice, and bunnies.
- According to the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), the immunity elicited by Anocovax neutralises both the Delta and Omicron versions of SARS-CoV-2.
India's FDI rank jumps to 7th position: UNCTAD
- India jumped one position to 7th among the top recipients of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the last calendar year (2021).
- UNCTAD said FDI inflows into India declined to $45 billion in 2021 from $64 billion in the preceding year.
- While the United States ($367 billion) remained the top recipient of FDI, China ($181 billion) and Hong Kong ($141 billion) also retained second and third position respectively.
PM Modi inaugurates India's first Biotech Startup Expo 2022 in Delhi
- PM Narendra Modi inaugurated India's first Biotech Startup Expo 2022 at Delhi's Pragati Maidan.
- The department of biotechnology and the biotechnology research assistance council (BIRAC) organized the event.Â
- It is being conducted to commemorate BIRAC's tenth anniversary.
- The theme of the expo is 'Biotech startup innovations: towards AatmaNirbhar Bharat'.
- Biotech expo is a two-day event that will host over 300 stalls displaying biotechnology applications in a variety of disciplines such as the pharmaceutical industries, agriculture and industrial biotechnology as well as waste-to-value and renewable energy sources, as per available reports.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh hands over 12 high-speed guard boats to Vietnam
- Defence Minister Rajnath Singh handed over to Vietnam 12 high-speed guard boats built under a USD 100 million Line of Credit granted to the Southeast Asian country by India.
- The boats were given at a ceremony in Hong Ha shipyard.
- The initial five boats were manufactured at the L&T Shipyard in India and remaining seven were built in Hong Ha shipyard.
Thailand becomes first Asian country to legalise consumption of marijuana
- Thailand becomes the first Asian country on to legalise the growing of marijuana and its consumption in food and drinks.
- Its main aim of boosting its agriculture and tourism sectors, but smoking pot is still against the law.
- Thailand, which has a tradition of using cannabis to relieve pain and fatigue, legalised medicinal marijuana in 2018.
Pramod Sawant launches 'Beach Vigil App'
AICTE Becomes First Accreditation Body to Hold Office Space in Metaverse
- The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has become the first accreditation body in the world to have its very own office space in the metaverse.
- Polyversity, an educational metaverse was launched on Monday by Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of Education and Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship in the Government of India.
- The AICTE's metaverse version, which is a simulated digital environment using augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), was launched by IDS.
Mithali Raj announces retirement from all forms of International Cricket
- The legendary Indian cricketer Mithali Raj announced her retirement on June 8, 2022, from all forms of International Cricket.
- She made her debut for India in 1999.
- Mithali Raj has played 12 Tests, 232 ODIS, and 89 T20Is for India in her 19-year career.
- Mithali Raj made her One Day International debut in 1999 against Ireland and scored an unbeaten 114 runs. She made her test debut in the 2001-2002 season against South Africa at Lucknow.
Shreyas G Hosur became 1st Indian Railways officer to complete gruelling âIronmanâ Triathlon
- Shreyas G Hosur has created history by becoming the first officer from the Indian Railways to complete the 'Ironman Triathlon'.
- It is toughest single-day sports event in the world.
- The event includes a 3.8 km swim, 180 km cycling, and 42.2 km running.
- Hosur completed the event - held in Germany's Hamburg on Sunday - in 13 hours and 26 minutes.
Virat Kohli has 200 million followers on Instagram
- Indian cricket star Virat Kohli has crossed the 200 million followers mark on the social media site Instagram.
- He became the first Indian to have 200 million followers on Instagram.
- Kohli is also the third most followed sportsperson on Instagram.
- Portugal football star Cristiano Ronaldo tops the chart with 451 million followers, ahead of Argentina football captain legend Lionel Messi with 334 million followers.
Indiaâs 1st Centralised AC Railway Terminal in Bengaluru Becomes Operational
- Sir M Visvesvaraya Railway Terminal in Bengaluru has now become functional
- The railway terminal, named after Bharat Ratna recipient M Visvesvaraya and modelled after the Kempegowda International Airport, has state-of-the-art facilities, spacious parking, a centralised water harvesting system, and a clean water recycling unit.
- The terminal is equipped with first-class waiting rooms, a VIP lounge fortified with digital real-time passenger information, food courts by the IRCTC, lifts, ramps, stairways connected to the subway, and a foot overbridge.
- The terminal also has specialised parking spaces for buses.
NHAI sets new Guinness World Record, lays 75-km long highway in 105 hrs
- Union Minister Nitin Gadkari announced that a new Guinness World Record was created by NHAI in laying 75 km of bituminous concrete in a single lane on NH53 in 105 hours and 33 minutes.
- The total length of the 75 km of single-lane continuous bituminous concrete road is equivalent to 37.5 km of two-lane paved shoulder road and the work started on 3rd June 2022 at 7:27 am and was completed on June 7, 2022, at 5 pm
Union Health Minister Dr Mansukh Mandaviya releases 4th State Food Safety Index
- On the occasion of World Food Safety Day, Union Health Minister Dr Mansukh Mandaviya releases 4th State Food Safety Index
- SFSI was started from 2018-19 with the aim of creating a competitive and positive change in the food safety ecosystem in the country. Â
- The index will help in providing safe and nutritious food to our citizens.
- This year, among the larger states, Tamil Nadu was the top ranking state, followed by Gujarat and Maharashtra.Â
- Among the smaller states, Goa stood first followed by Manipur and Sikkim.Â
- Among UTs, Jammu & Kashmir, Delhi and Chandigarh secured first, second and third ranks.
Repo Rate hiked by 50bps to 4.90 percent
- The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) hiked key repo rate by 50 basis points (bps) to 4.90 per cent in a bid to tame the soaring inflation in the country.
- This the second straight hike by the central bank in 2 months and is expected toÂ
- The RBI also raised inflation forecast for the current financial year to 6.7 per cent from its earlier projection of 5.7 per cent hike borrowing costs for corporates and individuals.
IISc is top Indian university in global rankings, overtakes IITs
- Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru has emerged as the highest ranked Indian institute in the 2023 edition of the QS World University rankings, pushing IIT-Bombay to the second position, followed by IIT-Delhi.
- The total number of Indian institutes among the top 1,000 globally has risen to 27 from 22.
- Overall, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is the worldâs top University for the 11 consecutive year.
- The University of Cambridge has risen to second place, while Stanford University remains in the third position.